Denver-based Robinson Dairy will close in November, resulting in the loss of 40 jobs and the end of a nearly 130-year-old business.

Parent company Dean Foods of Dallas is folding the company into its Meadow Gold Dairy brand, consolidating operations at its Englewood facility, which includes the transfer of 96 production and driver positions.

“We told employees a few weeks ago, but are phasing out the production over time,” said Jamaison Schuler, Dean Food spokesman. “We’ve told everybody it would close by mid-November and that they’d be notified should their position be eliminated sooner than that.”

Dean Foods shifted all of its Robinson brand products sold in retail stores to the Meadow Gold brand a year ago. The company will maintain the Robinson brand for its restaurant customers, but will manage those orders from its Englewood facility.

“It’s really just about the packaging and branding that’s different — and restaurants have known that brand for a long time, so we will maintain that brand for them,” Schuler said.

Dean Foods has recently consolidated several dairy brands across the U.S. in an attempt to create more “efficiencies.”

Early this summer, a similar closure at its Springfield, Va. plant effectively ended a locally-recognized brand, Shenandoah’s Pride Dairy, by folding the products into its Lehigh Valley Dairy brand.

Robinson Dairy began on a Lakewood farm in 1885 and remained a family-owned business until it was sold in 1999 to Suiza Foods in Dallas, which then merged with Dean Foods in 2001.

Kristen Leigh Painter was a former business reporter who focused on airlines and aerospace coverage. She joined The Post in September 2011 and departed for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in August 2014. She graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a master's in journalism after earning a bachelor's in history from the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

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